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Social network MySpace lobbed a shot across the bow of Apple iTunes last night with the launch of MySpace Music, a new site that offers free on-demand music streaming along with MP3 downloads for sale to US users.

Amazon.com has rolled out a video on demand service that offers users ad-free movies and television shows on Macintoshes or PCs.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has given MobileMe to the executive who heads iTunes, part of a shake-up over the sync service's public problems since its launch last month, according to a memo sent to company employees earlier this week.

Solid-state disk, once considered a niche technology for ruggedized, industrial and military applications, is on its way to the mainstream. This is partly because of SSD benefits, which include performance, power efficiency, ruggedness and a lightweight, compact size. But other developments have also come into play, including technology and market developments that have begun to help this technology overcome its pitfalls -- namely capacity, reliability and price.

Yahoo's move to provide third-party developers access to its entire search index could spawn a legion of smaller search engines that could take on Google, but it could also put Yahoo's own search business at risk, according to initial reviews in the blogosphere to the project Yahoo unveiled Thursday.

It turns out the reports of XP's death may be slightly exaggerated.

Down economy or not, the growing appetite for enterprise data storage won't be sated anytime soon, if ever. The rise of data-heavy multimedia files, new customer touchpoints, evolving reporting and compliance standards and other trends are contributing to near exponential growth rates in the amount of data created and stored in the digital universe.

Reports circulated Wednesday that Apple may demo the next iteration of Mac OS X next week or even release code to developers in preparation for an early-2009 launch.

There has been a lot of speculation in recent weeks about whether global oil demand could soon outstrip global production capacity. During a panel discussion sponsored by the Internet Innovation Alliance, several experts pondered whether something similar could soon happen with bandwidth.

Axiotron's Modbook is a really cool portable computer that I would likely never buy.

Google this week opened its hosted online patient medical records service to the public, seven months after first announcing plans for a foray into health care.